Whatever Happened to Britney Jean? (Spears Megathread pt2)

[saskia]

I worked in Child Protection and sadly dealt with multiple parents with chronic unmanaged mental health who were under the Guardianship of the Public Trust who would manage all their finances etc (admittedly they were all on welfare). Sadly the parents were all under the delusion they were perfect parents and only wanted their kids for the Facebook likes. I see BS wanting the Mother title but not the full time responsibility of it.
In the case of BS she really needs someone looking out for her. While her Dad was not great he kept her ‘managed’ & did the best he could. I don’t know where this will land for her but she needs some type of intervention because she will spiral and sadly be susceptible from people manipulating/using/abusing her while not having her best interest at heart.

[HWBL]

Jun 9, 2023 7:06:32 GMT Sarzy said:

Britney posted this before deleting her Instagram account again.
I feel like she's trying to hint at something else here. But I am probably reading way too much into it. 

There's something seriously wrong with her. Her mental issues are so obvious.

[Sarzy]

Just posting this bit because it's a long article: 


Since November 2021, when the 13-year arrangement to control her financial and personal affairs was lifted, she has documented her freedom in a torrent of highly emotional social media messages, many of them semi-naked.

The often-bizarre posts led to fears the 41-year-old is fragile, damaged by the years in which others controlled her life, and perhaps still plagued by the mental health issues which first led to the conservatorship.

Today, Britney is in an extremely dangerous place.

They tell me her drug-taking has resumed – with some in her family claiming she is now hooked on crystal meth, the highly addictive cocaine derivative made notorious in hit series Breaking Bad.


But after spending nine months working with the wider Spears family – Britney's parents, her brother, her former husband and her children – for a new documentary, I'm sorry to say the situation is more deeply troubling than even we had guessed.

'I fear she's on meth – I've been praying someone would make it public and that she wakes up,' Kevin Federline, her ex- husband and father of their two sons, told me. 'It's terrifying. She is the mother of my boys.'

Her sons, Preston, 17, and Jayden, 16, are refusing to meet their mother, claiming they have seen drugs being delivered to her house.

Her family are scared, with Britney's father, Jamie, telling me he worries she will meet the same fate as English singer Amy Winehouse, who died at the tragically young age of 27.

Having spent time with both families – Amy's in the three years before her death and Britney's over the past year – I can see disturbing parallels.

And as her ex-husband put it several times: 'Every time the telephone rings, I fear that there will be devastating news.

'I don't want the boys to wake up one morning and find their mother has taken an overdose.'

Having cut off her family after her conservatorship ended, accusing Jamie – the arrangement's instigator – of being 'abusive', 'bullying her' and even forcing her to take birth control, she has left them powerless to intervene.



www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181179/Britney-Spears-family-say-fear-METH-die-like-Amy-Winehouse.html

[no]

see? taking away the conservatorship was totally a good idea you guyz ♥

[kittylady]

The Daily Heil is still running the story (was updated less than an hour ago about Britney being "heartbroken" about the allegations). However, Kevin Federline is now saying that the reports aren't true and has accused journalist Daphne Barak of lying and harassing the family.


Kevin Federline slams ‘distressing’ report claiming Britney Spears is ‘on meth’: ‘Lies’


Kevin Federline is slamming a recent report that claimed he “fears” ex Britney Spears has been using crystal meth.

The former backup dancer – who was married to Spears from 2004 to 2007 – called out journalist Daphne Barak for “fabricating” his quotes, alleging to TMZ that she “lied” in a “distressing” report published by The Sun and Daily Mail on Saturday.

“It saddens our family that Daphne Barak and Erbil Gunasti have decided to fabricate lies and publish the heart ache our family has endured, along with the trauma of our minor children in the Daily Mail and The Sun,” Federline, 45, told TMZ Sunday, referencing Gunasti, who has worked on several projects with Barak.

“We did allow Daphne & Bill into our home because we trusted them, but that trust was lost and we severed ties back in March for many reasons we choose not to go into here.”

Federline further claimed that Barak was harassing him.

“It is very distressing that she continues to harass our family when we have repeatedly asked her to leave us alone,” he said.

“As was previously published, our family did speak with Ms. Barak and Mr. Gunasti a few times, and this was done in a respectful way with love & compassion for Britney and the Spears family. Her lies and attempts to exploit minors is click bait and another repulsive example of where, unfortunately, certain journalism has sunk today.”

Although Gunasti’s byline did not appear on the story, he shared the story via LinkedIn, describing the report as “our exclusive.”

“The question is: Isn’t it time to be real for a moment and pay attention to the message in this cover story? There is a likelyhood [sic] we may lose yet another celebrity for no reason,” he added in the post.

Page Six has reached out to Federline’s rep for comment, along with Barak and Gunasti.

It appears Spears also reacted to the report on Sunday, writing in part via Instagram, “The fact that people are claiming things that are not true is so sad … This may not even be them saying such things because it doesn’t make any sense to me for them to be saying that.

“It breaks my heart and the news is so low … l’ve always felt like the news bullies me … It’s sad because everyone sits back as if that’s ok to make up lies to that extent … Why am I told I have to sit back and rise above When they all go so low Hopefully it is just the news being hateful.”

Spears, 41, has not further addressed the allegations.

In the initial report, Barak alleged Federline told her, “I fear [Britney’s] on meth – I’ve been praying someone would make it public and that she wakes up … It’s terrifying. She is the mother of my boys.”

Elsewhere in the report, the journalist claims Britney’s estranged father, Jamie Spears, told her that he feared his daughter was heading down the same tragic road as Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning at age 27 in 2011.

“Britney may die like Amy,” Jamie, 70, allegedly said, referencing the “Back to Black” singer.

“Compare her wellness then and how she is doing now,” Jamie, whom Britney accused of abuse during his time as her conservator, allegedly went on.

The report also alleged that her and Federline’s sons – Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden, 16 – claimed to have seen drugs delivered to their mother’s home.

The report comes more than one year after Britney’s conservatorship, which controlled nearly every aspect of her life for over a decade, came to an end.

Page Six was first to report last month that Britney gave her kids permission to move to Hawaii with their dad after Federline threatened to take her to court.

The “Circus” hitmaker — who recently deactivated her Instagram account again — is now married to fitness guru Sam Asghari. The two celebrated their first wedding anniversary this week.


Source - Page 6

[loftybike]

I feel that Britney maneged a pretty good (for her) answer here. She can transport her sadness and she doesn't rant as much as I feared she would.
And working out to Throb (the Janet Jackson song) is something I can relate to.

[o0amber0o]

It is a pretty coherent post, but she's still dragging her kids through the mud on social media which I just can't understand. It sounds like Kevin did speak to that reporter, who knows what was said, but if she wants to be mad at him and blast him publicly fine. Her kids don't need it, whether they spoke to anyone or not.

[dilligaf]

Her response to " lies" is to bash her son? God forbid she parent.

[notoriousmkg]

“It is very distressing that she continues to harass our family when we have repeatedly asked her to leave us alone,” he said.



“As was previously published, our family did speak with Ms. Barak and Mr. Gunasti a few times, and this was done in a respectful way with love & compassion for Britney and the Spears family. Her lies and attempts to exploit minors is click bait and another repulsive example of where, unfortunately, certain journalism has sunk today.”

Federline is DEFINITELY using ChatGPT to write his press releases.  It sounds like a version of him who put down the bongos and went to college and made something of himself...

[sputnik]

isn't federline trying to move the kids to hawaii where he can ostensibly keep claiming child support for longer than if they stay where they are now?

claiming she's on drugs publicly is one way to go about convincing a judge to allow that...

not saying britney's not troubled and kfed is raising those kids but he's also got a vested interest in trying to keep financially benefiting from britney for as long as possible, just like her parents tried to with the conservatorship. and if her kids refuse to see her how can they also be claiming to see people coming to her house to deliver drugs? also, did the dealers have t-shirts that said 'meth dealer'? 


eta: hadn't seen the update with kfed slamming the report as lies. i suppose it's still possible he had something to do with it to help the custody case but it got out of hand? 

[dilligaf]

I think it is true, he did say all of this and he is just saying it is lies, after all now there is the original article, and an explosion of after articles with denials, corrections, etc.. I also think she should keep paying for her kids since that is literally the only thing she is doing that says she is a decent parent. I have lost all sympathy for this woman at this point. We are beyond the poor Britney was a prisoner of the conservatorship nonsense, clearly she needed it. And she blew off her kids during the conservatorship, and somehow cannot manage to make time for them now? She took yet another opportunity to bash her kid online too. The whole lot of them deserve each other.

[cornflakegrl]

I too have lost sympathy for her, at least as a mother.

I believe she is mentally ill and also has a low IQ in every way that is measured (intellectual, emotional) and that garners some sympathy from me. But this idea that the conservatorship or better parents or more sunshine or what the fuck ever would have made ALL THE DIFFERENCE just reads a preposterous to me. She is the single most unreliable narrator of all time. I truly don't get blaming other people because twirly batshit Britney says so.

She's straight up fucknuts. The help she needs in long term and probably mostly inpatient.

I'm so over her that I don't care if Federline is moving to Hawaii as money grab (I don't believe that). I'd rather see her money go to her kids than watch her drain it on pinterest dance outfits and hotel lobby locales. Yeah, it's her money but she hasn't been there for those kids in any meaningful way and if the kids end up at least taken care of by her money, Fucking good.

We watch all these old geezers having babies and some folks say, no big deal at least the kids won't want for anything. So doesn't that apply here? If she can't be an actual mother to them at least they get her money. Right?

[grandknight]

This is reminding me a lot of Dana Plato (Kimberly from Different Strokes)she got married at 19 and had a son right away, only to fall victim to substance abuse. Subsequently lost custody of her son and died in her thirties from suicide (although I believe it was likely an accidental overdose). Social media wasn't around then, but she often showed up on Geraldo or Sally Jessy Raphael completely inebriated and incoherent.

[trixie]

The article says Britney voluntarily agreed to let KFed move the kids to Hawaii so there won't be any court battle over it. (assuming it's true)

I believe Britney has mental and probably drug issues, but I find it very hard to believe she's a meth addict. I think we'd be seeing some physical deterioration and she still looks pretty healthy to me.

[dilligaf]

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Neither pic looks like her, but supposedly she is in Mexico with Sam for a surprise appearance at the Elton John concert.